- 304 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
The popular notion of how children come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then phrases, then sentences, then longer utterances. Although there is widespread agreement amongst linguists that this account is wrong, there is much less agreement as to how children really learn language. This revised edition of Ray Cattell's bestselling textbook aims to give readers the background necessary to form their own views on the debate, and includes accessible summaries of key thinkers, including Chomsky, Halliday, Karmiloff-Smith and Piaget.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Getting to rub two words together
- 2 Catching fire
- 3 Do we teach children to speak?
- 4 Learning through touching and feeling
- 5 What goes on in the mind?
- 6 A close look at Chomsky’s theories
- 7 Do we help children to speak?
- 8 Learning how to mean
- 9 The two hemispheres of the brain – A
- 10 The two hemispheres of the brain – B
- 11 The bounds of language acquisition
- 12 Was Dr Dolittle lying?
- 13 ‘Bootstrapping’ – A
- 14 ‘Bootstrapping’ – B
- 15 The best of both worlds?
- 16 Conclusion
- References
- Index